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    [RD] What is the Point of a Minimum Wage?

    Thanks @El Machinae - your post #22 really clarified some of your thinking for me. The one thing that seems to be lacking so far, though, is that your simplified explanations seem to be taking place decoupled from other realities. For example, when the minimum wage recently went up from $10.50...
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    The Good State of Offtopic

    I think the forum format is becoming a relic, unfortunately. Don't see many new youngsters here, right?
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    [RD] What is the Point of a Minimum Wage?

    Please walk me through this - you're generally reliable on economic policy stuff, but I don't see how the minimum wage is a tax at all, let alone a regressive one. Is it really lost productivity, or is it more accurately lost profit? The same worker is capable of the same amount of output per...
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    Indian Pakistan Clashes

    The existence of the nuclear shield is one of the reasons I'm ambivalent about proliferation - it really serves well to defuse escalation. However, the comorbid risks of proliferation are real, and wicked scary. Non-proliferation is complicated. I think the ISI got freaked out by the Mumbai...
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    The Good State of Offtopic

    Careful there.
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    Watch what people do, not what they say

    Oh man that is a good one!! I knew about the tight-fisted part. That's why 3M cello is called Scotch Tape. Classy, right?
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    Watch what people do, not what they say

    Explanation for the culturally-ignorant?
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    2020 US Election (Part One)

    Enough with the insults.
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    2020 US Election (Part One)

    the Fox opinion-shapers are terrified of her. They wouldn't be hanging on her every action like they do if they didn't see her as a threat. That said, she is still very new, and I fear she is being saddled with unrealistic expectations. I'm part of that - I want her to do really well. But...
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    2020 US Election (Part One)

    As someone who lives very close to AOC's district, I find it hilarious how wrong right-wing commentary is about her policies, her constituents, her level of support, her experience - pretty much everything. It would be easier to list the things they get right rather than correct everything they...
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    The thread for space cadets!

    Wouldn't turbojets be deadweight on the way to orbit, which (I assume) costs more than dead weight on the way back down?
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    Clown Car IV: The Dotard and Dunce Parade

    Just want to add a clarification about Megyn Kelly, not that it matters much. But this is, for once, something I can speak about where I may have an informed perspective. I worked on that show for almost a year, from before it went on air in late Sept 2017 until August 2018. Megyn Kelly Today...
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    Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

    Ok, I am using a 1TB HDD in an enclosure as supplemental storage for my laptop (which now has a 256GB SSD). I'm not exactly sure what I'll be using the drive (D:\OffSite Storage) for yet, but I figure it would be smart to password protect it at the very least, if not encrypt it. 1. if I...
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    The thread for space cadets!

    Ok, here is a Guardian article that, I think, is talking about the same thing that was buzzing on r/space a week or so ago. Can't be sure because searching Reddit is peculiarly difficult...
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    The thread for space cadets!

    I love the engineering is aerospace. Like, let's cast in a gusset, but distribute the force over a wide area! (Crap, cantc attach file from mobile. I was looking at the "descent trees" at the top of the combustion Chambers)
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